St. Paul daily globe., 1887-12-02
THE EVENING MEETING.
Sharp Language Used by Fiske
and St John.


CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The conference of
the National Prohibition committee was
brought to a close tonight by grand
mass meeting at Battery ID. The great
hall was comfortably filled and the ut
most enthusiasm prevailed. j. B.
Hobbs, who once ran for the governor
ship Of Illinois on the Prohibition
ticket. presided. The speakers were
Gen. Clinton B. FiSke, of New Jersey;
Mrs. Mary L. LathrOp, and ex-GOv. st.
first speaker, and on being introduced,
said in part: Zone great question is
uppermOSt in the mind of every
thoughtful PrOhibitiOnist: How can we
hasten the day of the utter overthrow
of the liquor traffic in this goOdly land
of ours? We believe that cOnSumma-
tiOn SO devOutly to he wished is among
the good things in store for us. Some of
us are growing impatient at the slow
progress we are making toward that day
of triumph. We wonder why every
good man and woman is not in battle
array with us against the forces of evil,
always in advancing columns. against
every citadel of truth and righteous
ness. Every careful student of the sit
uatiOn discovers that ROW, as never be-
fore, there is a murmur and stir in
every city. town and hamlet in the
country on this one vital question. In
conference and convention, in religious
and political cOnYOcatiOnS, at the club
and by the freSide, at every banquet it
pops up by our side. 1t will mot down"
till ''Birnam wood do come to DuniS-
name" Meantime the saloon sits SUI
preme in the politics of the country.
governing in caucus, convention and
canvass. Seventy per cent of the pri
marieS in both of the dominant political
parties are
CONVENED IN GILDED SALOONS
or crOSS-road taVernS. In the great
cities of the land where now dwell more
than 10000 600 of our people, the saloon
Is the chief inspiration in politics. These
are the solemn questions of the hour.
Can they be practically answered by
either the Democratic or Republican
parties? Nay, verify Democracy stands
up SQuarely and boldly and says I'VE
are for liquor every time. Wewill have
naught 10 do with your prohibition. We
are against all Sumptuary laws. We
rather like the ProhibitiOnists to keep
up good strong party organization be-
cause we know they make larger drafts
upon the Republicans than they do upon
us in most sections. Our press will
treat the crankS cleverly in all latitudeS
where they weaken the old party of
moral ideas, but where they hurt us by
drawing too heavily on our piOuS Demo-
Gratis in the rural districts, then we must
pOunce upon the fanatics and drive
them out" The Republican party says,
''We can't do it just now. Why don't
you keep quiet until we get a good
ready? We know that in our ranks are
the best men of the country and we
want to he sufficiently Out-spOken
against the saloon to retain them and
not sufficiently OutspOken to ALLEVIATE
the saloon interest, for the Chicago
Tribune says. Don't you forget that
majority of the
BEER SELLERS ARE REPUBLICANS
iand we must not take such action as to
drive them away from us. Let our anti
saloon Republicans understand that we
say this with emphasis, and what was
the result of such talks? Why, the
father of the anti-Saloon movement
packed up his carpet bag and moved to
New York, taking his poor little anti
annex along with him and there demon
Strated that the movement was like
Sauab-the largest when it was first
hatched Had the Republican party
taken up this issue boldly and taken
such position as to have driven the
LIQUOR interest from its ranks it would
have stopped the exodus of the best ele
ment in the party, called back those
who mad rebelled against longer sub
mission to saloon dictatiOn, drawn the
conscience from the Democratic ranks
and would now have been waving its
banner in triumph over both ends of
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. When the Repub-
Iican national committee in this city
in 1884 slammed the door in the face of
Frances +. Willard and said: I'VE
like you. but you know we are bound
hand and foot to Herman Raster and we
dare not break the ShackleS that manacle
U.s." that hour its fortunes began to
wane and its thoughtful constituents
Nave been steadily moving into other
quarters where the prohibition of the
liquor traffic is made an all controlling
force i'll politics until there shall be no
IegaliZed dram-ShOp where floats the
stars and stripes; until in all places of
power, municipal, county. state and
nation, shall be men who will protect
the poor, Succor the labOrer, guard the
home and smite with death the system
so prolific of disease, vice, ,wretchedneSS,
poverty. degradation, sorrow and mur-
der. There is no safety in any COM
promise with the m0nStTous wrong.
WE MUST DESTROY IT.
No system of license or regulation, tax
alton or restriction will avail. The Pro-
hibition party has but one remedy, and
that is prohibition. A half million men
are to-day ready to march to the polls
to emphasize their opinions with prohi-
bition ballots. Another half million